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Calls for stronger response; Libya: fighting continues as risk of serious human rights violations remains; US atrocity prevention initiatives
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26 August 2011
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1. Human Rights Watch - Syria: UN Team Should Insist on Protection of Protestors
2. International Federation for Human Rights - Crimes Against Humanity in Syria: the urgent debate in the UN Human Rights Council should be echoed by further action at the Security Council
3. Don Kraus, Care2 (guest post) - Syria: Who You Gonna Call?
1. Philippe Bolopion, LA Times Op-ed - After Libya, the question: to protect or depose?
2. Ban Ki-moon Remarks in Denver stress responsibility to protect in Libya and Syria
3. International Crisis Group - Libya: Ensuring a Smooth and Peaceful Transition into the Post-Qaddafi Era
4. Lloyd Axworthy – In Libya, we move toward a more humane world
5. Ethics & International Affairs, the Journal of the Carnegie Council - Special Roundtable on Libya and Humanitarian Intervention
6. Rachel Gerber, Stanley Foundation - The Trials and Tests Faced by R2P
7. Plenty of credit to go around in Gadhafi's fall
1.Sudan: Satellite Sentinel Project – Special Report : Evidence of Burial of Human Remains in Kadugli, South Kordofan
2. Côte d'Ivoire : Gilles Yabi, International Crisis Group - La Côte d'Ivoire peut tourner la page
1. Kyle Matthews, Ottawa Citizen Op-ed - Obama is upstaging Canada on the human rights front
2. Andrew C. Miller and Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations Expert Brief - How New Atrocity-Prevention Steps Can Work
7 September 2011, European Parliament, Brussels - Seminar: Human Security and the Responsibility to Protect
In recent weeks, Syrian authorities' violent attacks on civilians have continued with excessive and lethal force against the popular protests, including in the provinces of Homs, Hama, Deraa, Idlib and Deir ez Zour, as well as in and around Damascus. Many civilians have been killed and injured, and large scale arbitrary arrests have continued.
On 25 August Syrian troops resumed shelling Deir ez-Zour and began firing on the town of Shuhail amid daily protests. A five day shelling campaign against the port city of Latakia by Syrian Naval vessels began on 13 August, just a day after thousands of protestors gathered in the city. In Latakia, ground forces and police were deployed, reportedly firing on and detaining civilians. Latakia is home to a large Palestinian refugee camp, from which over 5000 refugees fled to escape the wave of violence. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had no access to the camp, but was able to set up a temporary office near the camp to distribute emergency aid. Syrian authorities also continued attacking the city of Homs where the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that since the beginning of August, 700 people have been arrested.
Since the government crackdown on protests began in March, the UN disclosed that around 7,500 people had been displaced as of 19 August. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay reported on 22 August that over 2,200 people had been killed. Despite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's assurance that military and police operations had stopped, Human Rights Watch reported that at least forty-nine people had been killed across the country since 17 August.
Meanwhile, on 24 August Syrian opposition groups announced the formation of the Syrian National Council, aiming to build political infrastructure to streamline government formation upon Assad's departure from office.
OHCHR report confirms crimes could amount to crimes against humanity
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released the Report of the Fact-Finding Mission in Syria on 18 August 2011. The Report found evidence of widespread and systematic attacks against the Syrian population that may amount to crimes against humanity, including murder, disappearance and torture as well as deprivation of liberty and persecution. The Report also made recommendations to the Syrian government to prevent impunity, allow the safe return of refugees, release all detainees, and allow the OHCHR and the Human Rights Council access to investigate. The Report includes the following paragraph referring to RtoP:
"Bearing in mind the findings of the Mission on Syria, the response thus far provided by the Government of Syria and the international community, as well as the on-going situation on the ground, the High Commissioner, reminds that States unanimously agreed at the 2005 Summit that each individual State has the responsibility to protect its populations from crimes against humanity and other international crimes. This responsibility entails the prevention of such crimes, including their incitement, through appropriate and necessary means. When a State is manifestly failing to protect its population from serious international crimes, the international community has the responsibility to step in by taking protective action in a collective, timely and decisive manner."
Human Rights Council dispatches commission of inquiry
From 22-23 August 2011, the UN Human Rights Council held a Special Session on Syria to investigate the ongoing human rights violations, subsequently adopting a Resolution condemning the systematic violations committed by the Syrian authorities and demanding for the government to immediately halt these violations and protect the Syrian population. The Human Rights Council also decided to dispatch a commission of inquiry to investigate human rights violations in Syria. Thirty-three Member States voted in favor, nine abstained and China, Cuba, Ecuador and the Russian Federation voted against the resolution. The Resolution included the following paragraph:
"Expressing deep concern following the statement issued by the special advisors of the UN Secretariat General on the prevention of genocide and the responsibility to protect who considered that the scale and gravity of the violations indicate a serious possibility that crimes against humanity may have been committed and continue to be committed in Syria."
Urgent response needed from the international community
Human Rights Watch has called on the Security Council to impose sanctions and travel bans and the International Federation for Human Rights added that it should consider referring the crisis to the ICC, as recommended in the report of the OHCHR. Human Rights Watch has called for the League of Arab States to increase its pressure on Syria to end the violence and grant full access for the UN fact finding mission, for the European Union to freeze the assets of Syrian oil and gas companies, and for the Organization of the Islamic Conference to send a delegation to Syria and call for authorities to halt operations. Amnesty International continued to condemn the violent attacks and demanded the release of all detained protestors.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have urged for Assad to halt attacks and, for the first time, the United States, UK, France, Germany and the EU have called for Assad to step down. On 18 August, the United States added to existing sanctions on 32 individuals by banning Syrian oil imports and US citizens from initiating new investments and exporting services to Syria. The EU has added fifteen individuals and five institutions to those being sanctioned, and according to an EU diplomat, is likely to adopt an embargo on imports of Syrian oil next week.
A draft resolution was introduced to the UN Security Council, which reportedly calls for targeted sanctions, reflecting Syrian opposition groups' request for stronger response short of military means, though it faces possible opposition from veto-holding members China and Russia.
1. Syria: UN Team Should Insist on Protection of Protestors
Human Rights Watch
23 August 2011
The UN humanitarian assessment mission in Syria should demand guarantees from the government that security forces will fully respect the right to peaceful assembly in areas the UN team visits, Human Rights Watch said today.
Shortly after the UN mission left the area on August 21, 2011, security forces opened fire on protesters gathered near the Clock Tower Square in Homs. (…)
"Syria has demonstrated with gunfire and bloodshed that its promise to allow the UN to conduct a humanitarian mission without hindrance is hollow," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The UN needs to get cast-iron guarantees that this will not happen again." (…)
Syria allowed the UN team to visit some centers of the protests and repression to assess humanitarian needs, and had promised unhindered access. Anti-government activists had expressed concern to Human Rights Watch that the authorities would only take the UN team to pro-government areas.
"We learned that the UN team was coming to our city," a Homs-based activist told Human Rights Watch, "so we organized a protest to tell them to visit our neighborhoods and not those that the government picks."
A UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, told reporters in New York that "a protest situation developed" in Homs during the team's visit "and the mission was advised to leave for security reasons." He added that, "The mission did not come under fire."
One protester told Human Rights Watch, "After they left, the security forces opened fire on us."
Another activist based in Rastan, a town near Homs that suffered heavy fighting during the past few weeks, expressed disappointment that the UN team would not be visiting that site.
"The UN should insist that Syrian authorities allow it unhindered and independent access to the protest areas," Whitson said. "Otherwise the mission risks being perceived as a government-sponsored guided tour." (…)
"Just last week, President al-Assad was telling the UN Secretary-General that policing operations had stopped, and now Syrian forces are firing on protesters practically under the UN's nose," Whitson said. "The Security Council should need no further evidence that stronger steps need to be taken to convince Syrian authorities to change their course." (…)
Protests erupted in other parts of Homs following the shootings near the clock tower. Residents reached by Skype reported that protests took place in Bab Sba`, Bab Dreeb, and al-Meedan neighborhoods and that security forces redeployed armored vehicles around much of the city after having withdrawn them ahead of the UN visit. (…)
2. Crimes Against Humanity in Syria: the urgent debate in the UN Human Rights Council should be echoed by further action at the Security Council
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
19 August 2011
On the eve of August 22, 2011, a date set by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) for a Special Session on the situation of human rights in Syria, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Damascus Center for Human rights Studies (DCHRS) call upon the Member States of the HRC to adopt an unequivocal resolution and take all appropriate measures to urge the Syrian authorities to put an immediate end to the gross human rights violations underway in the country. Additionally the UN Human Rights Council should further its efforts to press the Syrian authorities to fully cooperate without any further delay with independent UN bodies. This includes, but is not limited to a UN commission of inquiry in order to enable an investigation on all alleged violations of international human rights law and to identify those allegedly responsible.
Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad has assured UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, that military and security operations against protesters ceased a couple of days ago. Despite this, extensive and relentless repression continues to take place. The « widespread and systematic » nature of the attacks perpetrated by the Syrian authorities against the civilian population since the beginning of the uprising has amounted to crimes against humanity. This has been confirmed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the basis of the findings of her Office's report released on August 18.
FIDH and DCHRS support the HRC proposal to establish a Commission of Inquiry in order to further investigate all alleged violations committed against Syrian civilians and call upon the Syrian government to fully cooperate with the Commission and to immediately take all necessary steps to guarantee their full and immediate access to Syria.
However, recalling the Syrian persistent failure to cooperate with the UN bodies and the gravity, the scale, and the international character of the alleged crimes committed by the Syrian Government, FIDH and DCHRS reiterate their call to the UN Security Council Member States to take urgent and appropriate actions including to consider referring the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court, as recommended by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
3. Syria: Who You Gonna Call?
Don Kraus (guest post)
18 August 2011
(…) As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brutality escalates, so have the rebukes from the world community. Today President Obama announced the harshest financial sanctions yet against the Assad regime. And for the first time, the president has called for Assad to leave Syria, so the country can have a democratic transition. (…)
Even Turkey, Syria's neighbor and ally, alarmed at the assault on unarmed protestors resulting in over 2000 civilian deaths, has weighed in with its foreign minister saying, "This is our final word … these operations stop immediately and unconditionally." (…)
This is all sounding eerily familiar. Is Syria shaping up to follow in the footsteps of Libya, Darfur, the Congo and other conflicts, where mass atrocities result in international handwringing, declarations, and half measures that allow more conflict and civilian deaths? (…)
The good news is that compared to the years it took for the international community to react to the killings in Darfur and the Congo, international action is now happening at light speed. (…)
The bad news is that there are still very few effective tools available to the international community when a national leader is determined to inflict brutality on civilians to maintain control of a nation. Blatant murder committed by a head of state obligates the U.N. Security Council to send a firm message to Assad that there will be consequences for the continued use of overwhelming force against peaceful protestors. (…)
My organization, Citizens for Global Solutions has called for the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Syria and order a halt to the purchase of its oil and gas products until all Syrians are protected. The Council should also hold the Syrian political and military leadership personally responsible for their actions, by referring the case to the International Criminal Court. (…)
The U.N.'s Human Rights Council should conduct public hearings in Geneva featuring live, televised testimony by Syrian victims who have escaped to neighboring countries to generate global pressure for more effective means to end the killings. (…)
Earlier this year, the French successfully sent troops to stop mass killings and to allow for a democratically elected government to take root in Cote d'Ivoire. But no nation is stepping up to the plate in Syria. This is the moment when the international community should come together to fill the gap between its need to keep the peace and its ability to do so, by establishing a standing force made of individuals recruited from around the world by the United Nations. (…)
The bottom line is, until the U.N. has a true capacity to answer an international 911 call, the resolution to Syria and future mass murder scenarios will be slow, messy and too little, too late for those who must endure them. (…)
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Libyan rebels stormed Tripoli on 20 August, gaining access to Col. Gaddafi's compound. As of 26 August, loyalist snipers were still attacking rebels as they tried to take full control of the capital and search for Gaddafi. On 25 August, rebel forces found evidence of a mass execution of political protesters by pro-Gaddafi forces. Médecins Sans Frontières stated on 25 August that Tripoli hospitals were overwhelmed with patients and that the country was experiencing shortages in medication and supplies. In a hospital in Abu Salim, the neighborhood where Gaddafi's compound is located, medical personnel were prevented from entering the facility by loyalist snipers until 25 August. On 26 August, eighty bodies were found in the facility, in part a result of a shortage in medical personnel. Elsewhere, the rebels are preparing to advance on Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte with NATO support.
Meanwhile, the TNC has also started discussing the formation a unity government in Libya and the re-building of the country. The NTC began moving its base from Benghazi to the capital Tripoli and NTC leader Mahmoud Jibril declared on 24 August that there would be free legislative and executive elections in Libya in eight months. NATO has also begun to discuss the possibility of a continued role supporting a UN mission in Libya following military operations
Risk of severe humanitarian crisis and concerns of retribution
Amnesty International reports that both Libyan civilians and foreign migrants were in danger in Tripoli, saying that continued fighting risked causing a severe humanitarian crisis. Amnesty also reported than there was evidence that rebel forces and pro-Gaddafi forces have subjected prisoners to torture. The risk of retribution or revenge attacks is still a strong concern, as refugees and people internally displaced by the conflict need immediate assistance and protection. All individuals, including the Gaddafi family, must be treated in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law standards. Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to Mr. Jibril asking the TNC to cooperate with the ICC, protect civilians, allow international monitors into Libya and secure arms depots and prisons.
Increased recognition of TNC and unfreezing sanctions for humanitarian and fuel needs
The League of Arab States officially recognized the TNC as the legal representative of Libya on 25 August. The Contact Group on Libya, which includes 28 countries, the UN, European Union, NATO, League of Arab States, Organization of the Islamic Council, Gulf Cooperation Council, and (as an observer) African Union and 28 nations, met on 25 August and concluding that the TNC is the sole representative of the Libyan people, began discussing a process to unfreeze Libyan assets.
On 25 August, the UN Security Council's Libya Sanctions Committee approved to unfreeze $1.5 billion to be used for critical humanitarian needs and assistance, namely up to $500 million for humanitarian needs, $500 million for fuel and other goods for strictly civilians purposes and $500 million for the Temporary Financial Mechanism established by the Contact Group to assist the Libyan people for key social services (education and health).
After an emergency meeting of its Peace and Security Council in Addis-Ababa on 25 August, the African Union issued a communiqué which did not explicitly recognize the TNC but encouraged the formation of an all-inclusive transition government.
For more details on the ongoing risk for the Libyan population, see our 23 August listserv.
1. After Libya, the question: to protect or depose?
Philippe Bolopion
Los Angeles Times
25 August 2011
Philippe Bolopion is the UN Director at Human Rights Watch.
NATO's military intervention in Libya was initiated under the principle of the "responsibility to protect," a concept born from the ashes of the Rwandan genocide: that the world should not stand by while mass atrocities go on within a sovereign state. (…)
After much lobbying, the principle was finally enshrined by the 2005 World Summit and successfully used to resolve dangerous crises in Kenya and Guinea. But never, until Libya, had its most controversial aspect — the use of force as a last resort — been put to the test.
In the eyes of many countries, NATO has failed that test.
In March, as Moammar Kadafi prepared to crush the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, the U.N. Security Council authorized military action in Libya. But it made clear that the point of the action was to protect the Libyan people.
Many countries that opposed the Security Council's action, and even at least one that supported it, now believe the Western operation has gone far beyond merely protecting Libyans, and it is now widely seen as an action intended from the start to get rid of the Libyan ruler.
However unpopular Kadafi might be, the idea that NATO's warplanes were trying to kill him has struck a nerve among countries allergic to regime change and already suspicious of the responsibility-to-protect concept, known in diplomatic circles as R2P.
"Libya has given R2P a bad name," India's U.N. ambassador, Hardeep Singh Puri, said recently. Diplomats from South Africa, which unlike India supported U.N. Resolution 1973, have expressed similar concerns, saying they feel used and are indignant that the West ignored calls by the African Union for a cease-fire.
One could argue that when a leader is bent on committing mass atrocities against his population, the only effective way to protect civilians is to bring down the tyrant. Yet no NATO state has made this case openly; instead its members have gone to great lengths to assert their neutrality.
The Libya operation has strengthened the case of those questioning the concept that the world has a responsibility to protect citizens from their rulers, and the backlash is already contributing to tragic consequences.
In Syria, where security forces have killed more than 2,000 protesters and arbitrarily arrested and tortured thousands, including children, people are clearly in need of protection. If the Security Council were to take its responsibility to protect seriously, it would have long ago used the many nonmilitary tools at its disposal to put pressure on Bashar Assad's regime. It could have passed a resolution demanding an end to the violence, the creation of a commission of inquiry, an arms embargo or an array of sanctions targeting the leadership of the government or the oil sector.
There are many reasons for this disturbing failure to act: the opposition of veto-wielding Russia and China, the silence of the Arab League, the presence in the Security Council of Lebanon, which is a virtual hostage of Syria. But a crucial factor against action has been that key votes in the council — India, South Africa and Brazil — are missing. Behind closed doors, their diplomats have explained that they are reluctant to go down the Libya road again. Of course, nothing in a draft resolution initially offered by the Europeans even hinted at military action or regime change. But for India, South Africa and Brazil, it's payback time. The Syrian people are paying the price for what some countries see as NATO's overreaching in Libya.
So here we are, once again, with the Security Council standing virtually idle while mass atrocities are being committed, the very situation the responsibility-to-protect concept was designed to avoid. (…)
Countries that waged war in Libya under the banner of the responsibility to protect have a duty to explain themselves and accept a sober and critical look at their actions. They should not be seen as brandishing responsibility-to-protect when it's politically expedient and ignoring it when it's not. They should address the complaints of countries that genuinely supported action to protect civilians but felt alienated by the way military operations were conducted. It's the only way to ensure that Libya's legacy brings us closer to a world that does not tolerate mass atrocities ever again.
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2. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Remarks to Denver's Korbel School Annual Dinner
UN news
24 August 2011
(…) In 2005, world leaders agreed to step up global efforts against genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, or their incitement. We call it the responsibility to protect.
Over the past year, the responsibility to protect has become an operational reality. Both the Security Council and the Human Rights Council have invoked the principle in recent months.
When the leader of Côte d'Ivoire refused to leave after he lost the presidential election, the United Nations stood firm for democracy. The justly elected leader was finally inaugurated in May.
In Sudan, we acted decisively to keep the peace – first in Darfur, where we deployed peacekeepers early in my first term, and more recently in helping North and South Sudan to amicably separate. In the new capital of Juba, last month, I was proud to witness the new country of South Sudan peacefully mark its first day of independence. (…)
We do not yet know how the international effort in Libya will end. Certainly, we recognize the potential dangers and enormous challenges ahead. But we do know -- and we have all seen – that the people of Libya have shown tremendous courage and determination to seek a free and democratic future.
Our responsibility, as an international community, is to help them realize those aspirations.
That is why, for the past several months, the United Nations has been working intensively to ensure that we can do our part for post-conflict assistance. We stand ready to provide assistance in all key areas, including economic recovery, elections, human rights, transitional justice and the drafting of a new constitution.
For my part, I have been in touch over the past few days with the leader of the National Transitional Council. He assured me that extreme care would be taken to protect people and maintain law and order. I have also talked to other main actors, including the League of Arab States, the African Union and the European Union.
The goal is clear: no further bloodshed; no retribution; and an orderly transition – one responds to the Libyan people's long-held hopes for freedom and opportunity.
The same yearnings are on display throughout Syria.
I have repeatedly urged President Assad to end the excessive and lethal use of force by his security forces against the Syrian people, and to engage in meaningful reforms. Yet while he pledged to do so, he has not upheld that commitment. The violent repression against civilians, including mass arrests, continues. At my urging, a United Nations team is on the ground as we speak with the aim of better appreciating the needs of the population most affected by the violence. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has filed a deeply disturbing report on the widespread and systematic violations of human rights since March, and has recommended that the Security Council refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court.
The international community must respond to the legitimate aspirations of the people for change. We must do our part to protect people threatened with extreme violence for exercising basic rights. (…)
See full speech
3. Libya: Ensuring a Smooth and Peaceful Transition into the Post-Qaddafi Era
International Crisis Group
23 Aug 2011
As Libyans prepare for the Qaddafi regime's imminent demise, the country faces a pivotal moment of historic proportions. Steps taken in the next few days and weeks will decisively shape the post-Qaddafi order. The new, still nascent, Libyan leadership, faces a dual, difficult legacy which it will need to overcome: four decades of an autocratic regime that failed to build genuine state institutions and six months of a civil war that, together with inevitable human and material losses, exposed old divisions and fissures while prompting new ones. The challenge for that leadership, as well as for international actors who enabled its drive into Tripoli, is threefold: to establish a broadly inclusive and representative transitional governing body; address immediate security risks; and find an appropriate balance between, on the one hand, the search for accountability and justice and, on the other, the imperative of avoiding arbitrary score-settling and revenge. (…)
Further complicating this task are the inevitable difficulties in establishing the national legitimacy of Libya's new leaders. The Transitional National Council (TNC), created in rebel-held Benghazi in March 2011, could stake a clear claim to representing Libyans in areas free of regime control, and it has done a remarkable job in constituting basic institutions to manage civic life in those areas and attract international support. Yet the TNC never could claim to represent all Libyans, even if it broadly reflected their aspirations, for the simple reason that most Libyans, especially in the capital Tripoli, were not in a position to freely voice their opinions or participate openly in the TNC, whose membership was therefore weighted, by default, toward those in liberated zones. The TNC will now have to reflect in its membership all of Libya in its full diversity, and merge its administrative operations with those of the remaining, functioning public sector institutions.
(…)There will be, too, tensions between secular and Islamist forces. None of this suggests that it will be impossible to create a unified government, or a single military force under civilian control, merely that much hard work will need to be done very quickly to reduce the real risk of the country slipping into chaos.
In this context, Libya's rulers will need to urgently turn their attention to the following areas:
Political legitimacy: Libya's new leaders, led by the TNC, should convene, at the earliest opportunity, an inaugural council meeting in Tripoli, inviting representatives from all parts of the country and all strands of society and the opposition – various rebel groups, as well as local underground resistance groups in Tripoli and elsewhere – to participate. Indeed, the TNC should strive to be fully inclusive, embracing qualified former-regime elements who were not direct perpetrators of human rights abuses, lest their exclusion create the conditions for a future insurgency of the kind that blighted post-2003 Iraq. The TNC should strive to be transparent in its actions and, along with local leaders and rebel groups, should communicate its decisions clearly, explaining its motivation for each step in a situation where people can be expected to harbour an innate distrust of authority. Particularly important to Libyans is transparency in contracts and provision of services. The expanded council should continue to make clear it is a strictly provisional body charged with managing day-to-day affairs. Its focus should be on providing law and order and ensuring proper delivery and functioning of essential services until elections can be held.
Security, law and order: How the new leaders deal with law and order will be essential in determining popular perceptions of their qualifications to run the country in the interim period. In the critical first days, the erstwhile rebel groups should fill the security vacuum left by the surrender or disappearance of the former regime's security forces. They should stop distributing arms to the population and instead begin collecting and securing them. They should integrate whatever viable elements of the former regime's security forces can be retained into a new structure led by commanders appointed and supervised by the interim ruling council. (…)There is also a risk that Libyans of Saharan or sub-Saharan African origin could be victimised by retributive or retaliatory actions. In this respect, every effort should be made to protect groups such as the Mashashia, the Twergha and other native Libyans from the country's centre and south.
Transitional justice and reconciliation: (…) One of the interim ruling council's immediate tasks should be to urge fighters under its command and the population at large to foreswear any reprisal against former-regime elements, including members of the Qadhafi family, who should be treated in accordance with principles of international law. Those suspected of crimes should be detained and brought to justice before proper judicial institutions. The council also should establish a special commission, comprising independent Libyan figures of impeccable qualifications and reputation, charged with processing persons accused of crimes with a view to integrating most back into society while handing the worst offenders, including Qadhafi's inner circle, over to the courts (and those indicted by the International Criminal Court to the ICC in The Hague).
Members of the international community should match their military campaign with a new and commensurate political, diplomatic and reconstruction/development-focused effort. In this context, the UN should be given a central role in the transition process. In providing assistance to Libya, however, international actors they should steer clear of any overbearing tendency to dictate terms for international aid, instead working jointly through the UN to deliver assistance requested by the interim ruling council and eventually its elected successors. In the short term, there is the risk of a humanitarian crisis, and – in addition to the lifting of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council -- significant international work should go into helping provide sustenance and shelter to those in need.
As the struggle to bring an end to the Qadhafi regime comes to a close, the effort to build a new Libya whose government is representative, which meets the basic aspirations of its people and avoids the settling of past scores begins. Amid today's understandable euphoria, the magnitude of tomorrow's challenge ought not be underestimated.
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4. In Libya, we move towards a more humane world
Lloyd Axworthy
The Globe and Mail
23 August 2011
Six months of courage and determination by the Libyans, abetted by a UN resolution offering protection against a murderous government, followed by NATO airplanes – and another despot is on his way out. While there will continue to be unfolding and unexpected twists in the Libyan story, the main plot is clear: Moammar Gadhafi and his regime have been overturned by a combination of powerful, popular democratic forces within Libya and a willingness by certain members of the international community to respond to the UN call for intervention to protect the brave civilians on the ground.
This heralds a further significant step in bolstering the emerging norm of how international justice trumps sovereignty. It further establishes the principle of international protection of civilians at risk, an idea first promoted by Canada during its Security Council tenure of 1999-2000, which resulted in the protocol of the "responsibility to protect" (R2P), emerging from a Canadian-sponsored international commission after the Kosovo conflict, which ultimately gained approval at the UN Leaders Summit in 2005.
While these developments in Libya can be seen as decisive alterations to the international framework of law and accountability, it's no time to be complacent. Indeed the application of R2P has just begun. Essential to the principle is the third crucial element of assisting in efforts to rebuild Libya on democratic, stable foundations – a difficult exercise. As we've learned from Afghanistan, you may be able to temporarily provide political security and stability, but building institutions is a more complicated and challenging enterprise, especially in places where they haven't existed.
Further, national treasuries in Europe and the United States are sorely depleted and the dominant theology of deficit-balancing does not lead to generous outpourings of aid. At UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's urging, a meeting of interested parties, including the African Union (AU) and the Arab League, will be held this week in order to determine the path ahead for Libya. The UN is the obvious choice to co-ordinate this response, but there is a need for further action. It is clear that actors other than the U.S. and Europe will have to take on many of the development and diplomatic tasks required for a transition from authoritarian ways to a more open and fair society. There is a limited amount of time available to meet what are likely to be high expectations. Libyans do have access to oil resources, but rebuilding needs skills and capacity in a variety of economic, social and governance tasks.
Equally there is the appetite for justice. As I have stated before, Col. Gadhafi must be brought to the International Criminal Court, as have other tyrants such as Slobodan Milosevic and Charles Taylor. There must be a due process to examine his crimes and bring closure to the excesses of his rule. Every effort should be made to ensure he is not captured and killed, though the temptation will be strong. In a similar vein, reconciliation should take precedence over retribution or retaliation. Peace will be brought about by establishing good faith in the rule of law, despite the emotional demands brought about by months of conflict.
Despite denials, there are rumours that South Africa – a prominent member of the AU as well as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council – remains in negotiations with Col. Gadhafi regarding his passage out of Libya. That should be a priority diplomatic path to follow, as long as it is clear that this is just a way station en route to The Hague and the ICC, or a joint tribunal in Libya itself. As a signatory of the Rome Statute and an example of democratic transition, South Africa is in a good position to take the lead with the support of like-minded countries like Canada.
We are seriously engaged in a resetting of the international order toward a more humane, just world. It calls for immediate and appropriate action as called for in R2P. Then, the next serious step is to find the means to end the tyrant Bashar al-Assad's bloodshed in Syria.
5. Special Roundtable on Libya and Humanitarian Intervention Published by Ethics & International Affairs, the Journal of the Carnegie Council
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
23 August 2011
Coinciding with the recent dramatic events in Tripoli and Libya as a whole, Ethics & International Affairs has published a special roundtable on the ethics and meaning of the NATO campaign in Libya, and its implications for future interventions.
The symposium, which is available online free of charge for a limited time, features contributions by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford), Simon Chesterman (New York University), Alex J. Bellamy (Queensland), James Pattison (Manchester), and Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York).
Contributors to the roundtable ask: What does Libya mean for the "Responsibility to Protect" (RtoP) doctrine? RtoP claims that governments have basic duties toward their own populations, the breach of which may trigger humanitarian intervention. Contributors also analyze how Libya will affect future potential interventions.
Additionally, contributors examine the overall ethics and meaning of the Libya intervention, taking into account the war's human and financial costs, the use of global governance mechanisms—particularly the UN Security Council's role in legitimizing the military campaign—and the legality of the NATO campaign according to international law.
Read the full articles from the Symposium.
6. The Trials and Tests Faced by R2P
Rachel Gerber
The Stanley Foundation
August 2011
(…) In a snapshot of the current debate surrounding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and global efforts to prevent large-scale violence against civilians, Libya and Syria would dominate a frame of amorphous figures with blurred edges, each shifting haphazardly in unknown directions. (…)
As NATO's mandate in Libya enters its sixth month and the Syrian government clings to power with increasing violence, some claim R2P has failed to deliver its promise to ensure protection for civilians whose governments have turned against them. While it would be foolish to claim that unfolding events and global action (or inaction) will have no influence on the long-term development of the Responsibility to Protect principle, pointing to today's snapshot as evidence of failure ignores its broader context. When taken at a wider angle, the current picture reveals many positive trends. (…)
UN member nations questioned whether and what kind of action the Security Council should take to counter such threats, but never the basic right of the council to do so. "It's not your business" is no longer a viable argument to give the international community when it comes to internal violence targeted at civilians—a recent and striking shift in the history of global politics for which R2P deserves its share of credit.
Far from a checklist that mandates uniform action, R2P is a dynamic policy framework that is meant to twist, bend, and adapt as best it can to the complex realities of the world it hopes to improve. (…)
Moving forward, novel approaches and compelling moral sentiments must eventually meet the messy realities of the world.
Many have classified the campaign in Libya as a mistake because the conflict has proven more protracted and complex than initially anticipated. Struggle is equated with error. Though, as decades of peacekeeping experience have taught us, civilian protection is rarely a simple endeavor.
We learn by doing and, until very recently, inaction has been the global response to mass violence. As R2P is applied, mistakes will be made, as must adjustments. Translating a sense of obligation into effective policies requires experimentation and adaptive learning.
Global leaders must take care that this inevitable process of trial and error does not automatically become trial by fire for the broader commitments made in adopting the Responsibility to Protect.
A recent debate on the Responsibility to Protect within the UN General Assembly suggests that governments understand this problem, and remain committed to preserving R2P, even when its application in cases like Libya raises more questions than it provides answers.
As global events unfold, R2P is facing the tests and trials that both its supporters and skeptics always knew it would. But the real world is where we all must come of age. In the end, we are stronger for it. (…)
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7. Plenty of credit to go around in Gadhafi's fall
Paul Heinbecker
The Montreal Gazette
23 August
Paul Heinbecker is the former ambassador of Canada to the UN and now works with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Laurier University in Waterloo.
(…) The deposition of Gadhafi is a vindication for the international community, for the UN, for NATO, for the International Criminal Court and for American foreign policy. Gadhafi's threat of "rivers of blood" and vows of retribution were too much for the UN Security Council to ignore, even if some of its members would have liked to do so. Russia, China, India, Brazil and Germany at least stood aside and let the Council authorize member states to impose a "no-fly" zone and to protect civilians, even if only from the air. It was the least they could have done, but it was enough.
Despite the chorus of disapproval from critics on the left, who wanted more diplomacy, as if third-person notes and an escalating Thesaurus of condemnations would have persuaded Gadhafi to stop, and from critics on the right who wanted "boots on the ground," whatever the political and strategic cost, the end of Gadhafi is a vindication for NATO. But for NATO's efforts, Gadhafi would still be imposing his insane rule on Libya. (…)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is also vindicated in its indictment of Gadhafi, which, like its indictment of Milosevic a decade earlier, did not prolong the fighting as some feared. If the ICC can try Gadhafi for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the cause of international justice will be advanced further and the immunity of tyrants diminished.
Gadhafi's defeat also vindicates Obama's foreign policy of making the multilateral system work. Obama induced a divided Arab League to ask for help, so that the U.S. could not be accused of initiating yet another war with a Muslim country, secured UN Security Council authorization to act and, after initially employing its "unique assets," let NATO carry the fight. History will applaud this skill and judgment.
Satisfaction is what Canadians can take from this conflict because Canadian diplomacy and Canadian arms were both instrumental in bringing about the outcome. Following the Rwanda genocide and the Srebrenica slaughter in the 1990s, Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, determined to find a way of reconciling the imperatives of national sovereignty and the protection of human rights, launched the diplomatic process that culminated in the new norm of international relations, the Responsibility to Protect. Ultimately accepted personally by 150 heads of state meeting at the UN in New York in 2005, this norm holds that when a state is unable or unwilling to protect its people from grievous harm or is itself the perpetrator, as in Gadhafi's case, "the principle of non-intervention yields to the international responsibility to protect." In authorizing intervention in Libya, the Security Council acted for the first time in conformity with this norm. (…)
If the aspirations of the Libyan people are to be achieved and the country is not to fall back into civil conflict, the international community, including Canada, will need to stay engaged, less as guarantors of security, although that might be necessary for a little while, but in the long, trying process of state-building. Canada - government, civil society and industry - can help with drafting a constitution, "standing up" a Libyan administration and military, advising on the creation of an inclusive, pluralistic parliamentary system, supporting human rights, and generating economic growth so that young Libyans at last have a future. This process will take decades not just years, and should become a priority of Canada's aid program. In the end, there is no guarantee that this all will work. But, in the same circumstances, who would not choose optimism over the despair of rule by a psychopath and his murderous sons? (…)
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1. Special Report : Evidence of Burial of Human Remains in Kadugli, South Kordofan
Satellite Sentinel Project
24 August 2011
The Satellite Sentinel Project's (SSP) identification on 14 July 2011 of a cluster of white bundles in Kadugli as consistent with human remains wrapped in white plastic tarps or body bags was controversial at the time. Although publicly questioned by a US government official, it has now been established by SSP through the collection of additional imagery and eyewitness reports.
This report presents more visual evidence and new information by eyewitnesses who spoke directly to SSP of the collection and burial of human remains wrapped in tarps and/or body bags by the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS). The bundles were buried at an additional two new apparent mass graves in and around Kadugli.
To date, SSP has identified a total of eight mass graves in and around Kadugli, as well as evidence of corpses wrapped in what appear to be body bags and/or tarps at four sites. Also, SSP's imagery of apparent mass graves has been reviewed by Stefan Schmitt, International Forensic Program Director for Physicians for Human Rights, who has concluded that the images "provide enough credible evidence to suggest the presence of mass graves." (…)
Statements and press releases by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the SRCS, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have also confirmed that mass body recovery and disposal operations have been occurring in Kadugli. A 1 July report released by IFRC verifies that the SRCS, reportedly acting on instructions from the Government of South Kordofan, has been actively collecting dead bodies in Kadugli town, and had at least 415 body bags and 2,000 plastic tarps recently transferred to it from the IFRC prior to the fighting in June. By the end of June, the SRCS was publicly saying it needed more body bags.
This, paired with a 7 July statement by the ICRC stating that it "provided Sudanese Red Crescent emergency action teams with technical advice on the management of dead bodies, and with the body bags they needed to recover the dead," corroborates SSP's assertion that the white or light-colored objects are consistent with body bags. Eyewitnesses have described to SSP seeing a yellow front-end loader with a backhoe digging mass graves in and around Kadugli at sites in which an SRCS Land Cruiser and SRCS workers were also present.
It is now two months since reports of the systematic killing of civilians in Kadugli by Government of Sudan-aligned forces first emerged. The debate continues about what further steps the US and the international community should take in response to the gross violations of human rights that have been reported. What should no longer be debated, however, is that these alleged crimes, including mass killing and subsequent mass burial of the dead, have happened and continue to occur.
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2. La Côte d'Ivoire peut tourner la page
Gilles Yabi
International Crisis Group
16 August 2011
(…) Après la violente crise postélectorale et la bataille d'Abidjan, ceux qui pensaient que la guerre pouvait être joyeuse ont peut-être enfin compris. Peut-être. La Côte d'Ivoire peut tourner la page, redevenir la locomotive économique de la région et un pays où le niveau d'insécurité au quotidien est «acceptable».
Elle le peut si le président Alassane Ouattara ne compte pas exclusivement sur une gouvernance politique et économique aux antipodes de celle de son prédécesseur pour réunifier la Côte d'Ivoire et permettre la réconciliation progressive de ses communautés. Et si les acteurs régionaux et internationaux n'adoptent pas l'attitude qui a mené si souvent aux pires désillusions: «Ça va aller… même si on fait le service minimum». (…)
Grâce à l'appui diplomatique de la communauté africaine et des grandes puissances, et à la mobilisation armée de l'ex-rébellion des Forces nouvelles, le président élu a pu accéder officiellement au pouvoir au mois de mai. Il doit mener de front les chantiers de la recomposition des forces armées, de la réconciliation nationale, de la justice, de la normalisation politique et institutionnelle et de la relance économique. Les décisions qui seront prises dans ces domaines dans les prochains mois seront décisives pour les perspectives d'une stabilisation durable du pays. La période critique ne se refermera sans doute que bien après les élections législatives —prévues au plus tôt à la fin de cette année. (…)
Ouattara a également appelé au retour de tous les exilés civils et militaires et offert la garantie de leur sécurité. Il faut maintenant que le gouvernement mette en place un espace de dialogue entre tous les partis politiques afin de discuter des conditions techniques d'organisation des élections législatives et du calendrier des opérations électorales. (…)
Tout doit être fait pour éviter la fixation durable des déplacés dans des camps humanitaires et permettre leur retour dans leurs habitations et dans leurs plantations, qui courent le risque d'être investies par d'autres paysans, faisant le lit de futurs conflits fonciers violents. (…)
La Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao), plutôt inaudible ces trois derniers mois, doit apporter sa contribution à la consolidation de la fragile paix ivoirienne en s'attaquant en priorité à la menace régionale que constituent la prolifération des armes de guerre et la circulation des mercenaires et miliciens aux frontières de la Côte d'Ivoire. (…)
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1. Obama is upstaging Canada on the human rights front
Kyle Matthews
Ottawa Citizen
15 August 2011
Kyle Matthews is lead researcher for the Will to Intervene Project at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
(…) With all eyes focused on Washington's debt ceiling crisis and the game of political brinkmanship between the Republicans and Democrats, President Barack Obama recently made history by announcing important strategic steps to make "never again" a reality. The White House announced it will make the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes a foreign policy priority through the establishment of a new Atrocities Prevention Board. (…)
The new Atrocities Prevention Board will bring together senior officials from the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and myriad other agencies to coordinate a whole of government approach to engage "early, proactively, and decisively" to prevent and interdict mass atrocity crimes. (…)
It may all sound very bureaucratic, but this move is crucial to the advancement of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), an emerging international norm that can trace its roots to Canadian leadership. R2P is a political concept that asserts national governments must exercise their sovereignty in a responsible manner, meaning they must do everything possible to protect their citizens from the most horrific human rights abuses. If a particular government is unwilling or unable to comply with this basic rule, then the international community must take quick action and fill the protection void. (…)
President Obama's decision to create the new Atrocities Prevention Board is worthy of the attention of Canadians because no other government in the world has gone this far in making a political commitment to R2P, thereby rendering it more likely that the 1948 Genocide Convention will be enforced. (…)
In 2011 alone we have witnessed mass atrocity crimes in Libya, Syria, Ivory Coast, Darfur and South Sudan. Despite having played a leadership role in the historic formulation of R2P, and taking part in the current NATO mission to protect civilians from the wrath of the predatory government in Libya, Canada is lagging behind its allies in institutionalizing genocide prevention as a foreign policy priority. As a signatory of the Genocide Convention and having endorsed R2P in 2005 at the UN Global Outcome Summit, the government of Canada should consider modernizing domestic institutions and build new capacities so that it can continue to contribute to international peace and security in an era of failing and failed states. (…)
The Will to Intervene Project, an initiative spearheaded by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University, issued an in-depth study in 2009 that laid out in meticulous detail what measures Canada and the U.S. could implement to improve their capacities to prevent and swiftly interdict mass atrocity crimes. The U.S. government has now acted on three of the recommendations advanced in that study, while the Canadian government has yet to implement a single one. President Obama's directive states plainly that the prevention of mass atrocities is a concern of national security interest, and this is true for Canada too. (…)
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2. How New Atrocity-Prevention Steps Can Work
Andrew C. Miller and Paul B. Stares
Council on Foreign Relations
15 August 2011
The following is an analysis of the steps to prevent mass atrocities taken by US President Barack Obama including a Presidential Study Directive to take inventory of existing tools to prevent and halt crimes and the establishment of a new Atrocities Prevention Board.
As the Presidential Study Directive (PSD-10) authorizing the new initiatives more or less acknowledges, the U.S. response to the threat of mass atrocities and genocide often has been too little, too late, and too improvised. (…)
Predicting the outbreak of atrocities with a high degree of confidence is no doubt a difficult task, but scholars have in recent years improved our understanding of telltale risk factors, such as leadership instability and ethnic polarization, which can help with early warning. Helping analysts within the intelligence community or diplomats in the field to raise "red flags" when they detect dangerous signals is another important component.
But without a high-level body of policymakers to receive such early warning information, it is effectively worthless. The new Atrocities Prevention Board, augmented by the recently created National Security Staff directorate for atrocities and war crimes, could serve as that body--one potentially empowered to push for proactive responses. (…)
But greater awareness of atrocity-prevention steps does not guarantee a process that will have lasting effect. Tough questions remain:
First, will the new atrocity-prevention structures and processes become "mainstreamed" within the national security apparatus? Recent history demonstrates that the established bureaucracy can marginalize or eliminate good faith efforts to change the status quo. (…)
Second, will the elevated priority given to atrocity prevention continue with subsequent administrations? (…)
Third, and most importantly, will the American people support what some will doubtless see as altruistic efforts with little bearing on U.S. interests? (…)
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1. Seminar: Human Security and the Responsibility to Protect
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
7 September 2011, 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Véronique de Keyser (S&D) will welcome participants followed by a panel entitled Human Security: A People Centered Approach. This panel will be chaired by Richard Howitt (S&D), and speakers will include Yukio Takasu (Ambassador, UN Special Advisor on Human Security), Mary Kaldor (Professor of Global Governance, London School of Economics) and Lotte Leicht (EU Advocacy Director and Director of Human Rights Watch in Brussels).
The second panel, entitled Responsibility to Protect: Time to Implement, will be chaired by Ana Gomes (S&D) and will feature Edward Luck (UN Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect), Eric David (Professor of International Law, Free University Brussels), Lama Atassi (President, France Syrie Democratie) and Maciej Popowski (Deputy Secretary-General, European External Action Service).
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Astronauts have successfully completed a spacewalk to install the Columbus external experiment facilities, SOLAR and the European Technology Exposure Facility. The facilities will now be activated and checked out before starting to collect the first data later this month.
Spacewalkers Rex Walheim and Stanley Love started the spacewalk at 14:07 CET, slightly ahead of schedule. With assistance from Leland Melvin at the controls of the Station's robotic arm, SOLAR and the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) were transferred from Atlantis' payload bay to the external platform on Columbus.
SOLAR was installed on the upwards facing, or zenith, position on the external platform. SOLAR contains three instruments for Sun observation – together they allow measurements through the whole electromagnetic spectrum. The facility features a moveable frame – called the coarse pointing device – which keeps the instruments pointing towards the Sun for an observation period of about 15 minutes per orbit.
The second external facility, EuTEF, was mounted in the upper forward facing position. The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) houses nine different experiments requiring exposure to the space environment – such as a micrometeoroid and orbital debris detector, material exposure, radiation measurement and an Earth viewing camera for outreach activities.
SOLAR and EuTEF will remain on the outside of Columbus for around 2 years before being retrieved and returned to Earth inside the Shuttle's payload bay.
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The spacewalkers also performed a so-called 'get-ahead' task - the inspection of a handrail on the Airlock which is thought to be a possible cause of damage to spacewalk gloves seen in recent times. The astronauts used a fashioned glove testing tool which was rubbed over a small dent in the handrail.

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-There are 150,000 dogs in Seattle, compared to only 90,000 children
-Seattle is rated as the 5th most dog-friendly city in the US, according to dogfriendly.com.
-1 in 3 Seattle households have dogs as pets.
How much of a PR hit would the Seahawks organization take if it signed a guy who not only financed a multi-state dog-fighting operation, but also personally took part in the brutal killings of dogs? How many season ticket packages would be canceled? For what? For a guy who wouldn't even be our starting quarterback?
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Middle And High School Assemblies
School assembly programs GUARANTEED to captivate student attention,
or your school doesn't pay!
Our counselor has indicated that she has already been able to use the message you presented to the students about bullying. She feels it is one of the few times the connection was made in their minds as to how their behavior affects others.Judy M. Gorton,
The Programs
Anti-Bullying Assembly
In this anti-bullying school assembly program, James addresses the various types of bullying, why kids bully, and ways for students to deal with bullies. He stresses that "telling is not tattling." Students need to recognize that informing the teacher or other adult about bullying behavior is not "tattling," but a crucial intervention to help someone.
This school assembly also addresses the role of peer-pressure in bullying behaviors, since so often it is a group of kids abusing a single individual. James encourages students to be willing to stand up to the group, or at least walk away, and not be led into bullying behaviors by their friends.
Peer-Pressure Assembly and Making Wise Choices
In middle and high school life, peer groups rule. The most important decision a young person makes is the choice of role models.
"Who will you allow to influence you, and what will you allow them to influence you to do?"
This is the question James asks throughout this challenging and powerful peer-pressure school assembly program. James uses his magic to demonstrate the power of influence, and challenge students to hang with people who really care, and who are positive role models.
Anti-Smoking Assembly
Will cigarettes make you cool, attractive, macho, healthy, or mature? In his anti-smoking school assembly program, James' magic demonstrates for students that such promises are nothing but smoke and mirrors. James exposes how tobacco advertisements are similar to magicians' tricks, but with a different purpose: to hook you on a drug called nicotine.
Rewards Assembly: Just for fun!
Want to reward your students for good attendance? Good grades? Fundraising efforts? Outstanding leadership? What better reward than a magic show school assembly! No message, just loads of fun! James Warren performed every year for over 13 years at the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. His magic has astonished stars like Michelle Pfeiffer, Goldie Hawn, Sinbad, and Warren Beatty.
Most of James' routines use lots of audience participation to involve the students on stage in situations guaranteed to create loads of fun and excitment!
Watch what parents, educators, and counselors are saying about James Warren's Magic With A Message school assembly programs.
DOZENS More Testimonials!
I could see in the faces of our students they truly loved your show. The ultimate compliment was from my colleagues after the show. Many said it was the best program we've had in some time. Others thanked me for such a powerful performance.Ruth A. Wolf,
I have heard wonderful things about your performance here last week. Thanks for sharing your wonders with the McCombs students and staff.Gregory Grylls,
James, your anti-smoking presentation for our high school students was superb. Your held their attention, delivered the message, and entertained them at the same time. Well done!Eddie Ward,
One of the best assemblies we've ever had at Hillview, and a great beginning for our Red Ribbon Week.Tony Eannareno,
This was one of the few assemblies faculty did not mind giving up their class time for. I have recommended your assembly to the California League of Middle Schools.Gil Hyder,
James is a dream to work with, and puts on an excellent assembly with powerful messages that really land with the kids. The kids were totally engaged and very responsive.Michael Maxwell,
I've been told numerous times that this was the best anti-bullying assembly we've had, so that says a lot about your message and performance. I will gladly recommend you and look forward to working with you in the future.Mike Walker,
I want to thank you for the wonderful show you put on. Everyone was very happy. When I was leaving the gym after the assembly, I was walking downstairs, and there were several students talking. I heard a lot of positive comments, but even better, I heard them talking about good choices. Can't ask for more than that!Jennifer Mavrorasakis,
Thank you for coming out to our after-prom party. You left everyone mindblown!Eryn Griep,
I wanted to write to thank you for the wonderful assembly that you did for us! The staff and students were very impressed with the way you taught invaluable lessons about bullying. You were very entertaining and at the same time made a big impact on how our students think about bullying.Marisa Maney,
James, you totally exceeded all our expectations with your keynote presentation for our youth anti-smoking summit. Thanks for coming all the way to the state of Washington!Melanie Norris,
Your talents with students are very special and should be experienced by all young adults. Your assemblies for ten of our middle schools throughout the District were outstanding. Not only was it well received by the students, but was hailed by faculty and staff.Dave Miller,
I would like to personally thank you for the wonderful program you gave us today. It fit perfectly with the message we have been trying to send with our no name calling day. I can�t tell you how happy I was, not only with the success of our day, but the fact that our students were absolutely mesmerized by your magic. Thank you so much for helping me to make our day a good one!Steve Oakley,
I've been booking assemblies for our schools for 13 years, and your show was great. I invited some parents to the assembly since the PTO paid for this, and they loved the show. Teachers and students were coming up to me after you left telling me how fabulous the assembly was. Thanks!Marc Galloway,
Students and staff are still talking about the show and using your message to spark discussions about anti-bullying, and how we can become a society of up-standers. It really engaged the students, and we would love to have you back.Arturo Noriega,
Thanks again for a great show! Your assembly definitely made the impact we hoped it would.Mike Elia,
You really held their attention and the high school kids were right with you. Fantastic assembly!Sara Kushner,
Thank you so much for the presentation you gave to our students at Willow Grove Middle School yesterday for Red Ribbon Week. It was truly magical. The students thoroughly enjoyed it. They took the message you gave and it gave them a new energy and enthusiasm as we celebrate being drug free.Madelyn Nealon,
Thank you so much for bringing such an insightful and entertaining show to our middle school students. Feedback from our students has been nothing but positive about you and your presentation/magic. I think that all of us, students and adults, learned some very important facts and ideas about substance abuse and influence.Lynn Fisher,
Thanks again for doing a great job. The feed-back from the students has been very positive and they really enjoyed your show. You held their interest!Lorri Hunter,
Your message confirmed what we are trying to teach our students about bullying, and your combining it with magic really got their attention. Everyone loved the assembly.Riccardo Ripa,
Just wanted to drop a note saying the students loved your show. I heard nothing but great reviews!Karla Dendor,
That was a wonderful assembly.Dr. Michael Riley,
Thank you so much for the amazing and entertaining performances you put on in Addison, New York! Everyone really enjoyed themselves and your message was a huge help to the work Reality Check is trying to do in Steuben County. It was an assembly I am sure the youth will not soon forget.Kathleen Crowley,
The Capital Region B.O.C.E.S. would like to send 1,000 thank you's. We loved your presentation. It was amazing. Come back soon!Shelley Viola,
We would like to express our extreme gratitude for your willingness to attend our PEACE day. Your program was a huge success and our whole school was impressed beyond words! We appreciate all that you did and look forward to working with you in the future. Thanks again!Joe Pelliccia,
Exactly what we needed for our "BUSTED" youth conference: both entertaining, and yet the anti-smoking message came across very clearly and strongly. Great job.Ron Radaker,
Thanks for a great assembly. I spoke with several people, and all four assemblies were well received.Heather Motter,
Great show. The students loved it!Joe Greenberg,
Thank you again for your informing and entertaining presentation on Saturday. We all loved it.Rose McAdoo,
The performances by James Warren were wonderful. His performances captured the audiences' attention and the anti-tobacco messages he incorporates into his shows really helps support the mission of "Reality Check" in New York State."Earl Kenyon,
I really enjoyed your technique of captivating middle school students with magic and then delivering the no-smoking message through advertisements. Thank you.Debra T. Gilbert,
It is quite a talent to be able to command the full attention of 400 people and you do it so well! My favorite part is when the kids just start yelling, "no way!" It's awesome. Thanks again for a great performance. You really ended the day on such a great note!Isis Ivery,
Not only did Mr. Warren capture the attention of the students, but also our faculty and parents in the audience. His magic had us mesmerized, and the messages and personal stories that went along with them were authentic and meaningful to our students. I would highly recommend hiring James Warren to perform for your students!Tera Erlendson,
Hello! Thanks so much for two terrific assemblies! I would have expected/hoped for after researching you that you would give an "A" performance, yet you gave us an "A+"!!! The feedback from the kids was great. They especially loved the expanding and shrinking head. The subject was presented in such a way that will stay with the kids.Cynthia Gould,
Great job! The students loved it.Brian Gault,
James, what a wonderful assembly for students to experience while learning about one of life's true killers. It's great when we can learn valuable content while being entertained.L.B. Havird,
Our school applauds this show! James is a terrific performer, who not only captivates his audience, but motivates and teaches them as well.Peggy Freshour,
Congratulations! You successfully entertained 800 middle school students and simultaneously delivered a powerful message–a daunting task for anyone. You are "one in a million."Maureen Blakely,
As a high school pyschology instructor and therapist for the past 25 years, I want you to know how impressed I was with your performance. You communicate positive messages about identity, self-esteem and self-image. I'm sure they will not soon forget your assembly or the messges you communicated.Gil Speer,
What you do is truly of benefit to our youth and I hope that at sometime in the future you will come back again.Florence Lemieux and The Caring About Teens Staff,
Our students talked about your assembly for days after your visit to our school. The general consensus was that they loved the magic and the humor and even remembered the messages. Our faculty, staff, and parents highly recommend your performance to other schools.Wendy K. McKenna,
It was an excellent assembly. Not only was it very professional, it was also very informative. It covered many important topics, giving us a great opportunity to discuss these issues with our students. I received many notes from teachers saying how much the students enjoyed your performance.Kay Bush,
It is difficult finding good motivational speakers for middle school students; but your performance was one of the best we have had in the past five years.Ralph Tilton,
Not only did our students thoroughly enjoy him, but our teachers gave James rave reviews. Our students were captivated and enlightened by James' message, and it is definitely one which they should hear.Sandra Lang,
I just wanted to thank you again for coming to our school on Thursday. Our students had so much fun and they are still talking about it. Your message was great and I was especially impressed that you talked about gangs since it is such a pertinent issue, even with our middle school students. You really did an amazing job and we will likely be contacting next school year for another assembly. Thank you again for captivating our students (and staff) and giving them a great time!Lauren Robbins,
I heard great feedback from the kids. They enjoyed the show and felt the message was valuable.Lisa Draper,
Thank you for two terrific performances! The students were amazed with the magic, and your anti-bullying message was on point for both age groups. Wonderful job using the magic to capture their attention, and getting your message across. Very impressive, and much needed at our school.Edward Molloy,
That was awesome! You had those kids riveted. We're definitely having you back.Pam Allen,
Until your presentation, I had never seen my classmates as engaged in an assembly program. You obviously have that special factor that helped get the message of the harm of tobacco across to the close to 3,000 students you performed for at our two schools. Ever since Friday I have not been able to walk through the halls without being stopped by a teacher or fellow student telling me how great the assembly was!Cory Bolotsky,
I cannot thank you enough for the steller performance you did for our after-prom party. The messages you intertwined about good decisions, actions, and consequences were awesome. I had a phone call from a parent at home last night, and her son was STILL talking about it!Jeannie Langdon,
Thanks for making the rounds to all our County schools, James, and helping to educate our students about the dangers of smoking.Kristi Martin,
On behalf of the students of La Jolla High, we want to thank you for your marvelous performance. The senior class, as well as the administration, appreciated your presentation. Thanks for coming!Janee Weaver,
Highland Park High School would like to thank James for a fantastic performance! The students and staff were absolutely blown away! You gave us the perfect ending for our Wellness Day, with some entertainment and laughter.Kim Holman,
The kids loved the assemblies! They said you were one of the highlights of the day. Thanks for coming to our school.Paula Fitzpatrick,
I wasn't sure how magic and the serious message of anti-bullying becomes a successful assembly. I was blown away! If you decide upon a different profession, I suggest you become a teacher. You obviously know how to communicate to any age.Helen Findlay,
The students liked how you integrated the tricks with lessons about bullying. They were also touched by your college story. I will indeed have you come to our school again.Jamie Van Hill,
We had wonderful feedback from our students! The kids loved that it was fun and taught them something too. I have even had students refer to the assembly when working out an issue in my office. We will definitely be in touch to do this again!Meredith Naskiewicz,
Thank you so very much for the great presentation this morning. It was a perfect way to start the school year, and I know the students were really listening. Having the whole middle school attend helped us all get on the same page, and be able to help our students in new ways.Joan Phelps,
From the opening moment, James Warren had our students hooked and thus proceeded to hold them spellbound for 45 minutes. What an entertainer!Steve Jacobs,
Thank you for performing for us; the kids wrote rave reviews about you on their evaluation forms. I got to see your act and it was a perfect combination of art, education, and fun!Nancy Chapellier,
What an act it was! Students and staff alike were absolutely enthralled from start to finish. Several parents I saw over the weekend said their kids could not stop talking about "the magic guy" they had seen at school. EVERYONE left the assembly with positive energy!Julia Berens,
Our staff and students loved you! Great message! Maybe we can have you again next year for a different topic.Meggan Smith,
I really want to extend my many thanks to you for your work today. I have heard nothing but positive reviews from the kids and staff who were able to partake in the assembly. I wish you the best in your future work and look forward to someday being to bring you back to share your message.Earl Farber,
Excellent program on bullying! I'd like to have you back next year and make this a yearly tradition for our school.Bobby Galella,
The bar has been set very high by engaging presenters like you, James. We certainly hope to have you back again for this event!Molly O'Connell,
I've been getting great feedback already! Everybody loved the assembly — we'll have to get you back again next year.Meghan Franclemont,
The feedback that we got was fantastic, and hopefully we'll be able to invite you back again next year!Jean Lippy,
Your energy was great, your message was great, and it was just what we wanted to tell the kids about peer-pressure. Everyone loved the assembly!Susan LaFex,
I just got your evaluations. You got mostly 5's which is the highest rating you can get. The teachers really seemed to enjoy your performance and thought it was very age appropriate and innovative for bullying and character education.Andrea Brown
We have had several bullying assemblies over the years, but yours was the BEST anti-bullying assembly we've ever had. And your programs were perfectly tailored to the different age groups. We'll spread the news to the other schools in our parish.Joseph W. Norris,
Thank you for everything. The youth had very positive feedback about your presentation.Angel Ortiz, Jr. ,
James, your work was wonderful and well received in Addison. I have received positive feedback from administrators who were present. Please feel free to use me or "us" as a reference for any future programming in this area that might come your way. Best wishes and thanks again.Amy Robinson,
The kids loved you and said you were "cool." You were a big hit! Thank you so much for coming, and I hope you enjoyed New Mexico.Amy McNally,
Excellent program, James. Everyone was spellbound, and the message came across loud and strong. Thanks much!Joe Andreis,
You had the riveted attention of each student, and they displayed great enthusiasm through-
out the program. Based upon the performance I saw, I would be happy to recommend you to any of the schools in our area.
It was a pleasure to have you perform at the middle school. The students' reactions were nothing but positive. Best of luck in the future.Ernie Thompson,
Just wanted to let you know that we really enjoyed your show. The students as well as the faculty were very impressed.Jennifer Korach,
The assembly was so effective, and your message of "don't be deceived by alcohol and tobacco ads" was carried out throughout Red Ribbon Week. The presentation was a perfect balance of entertainment and serious thought provoking material. James, you were a pleasure to work with and your assembly is definitely one which we look forward to rescheduling in the near future.Lisa Larson,
Our students were in awe throughout the assembly. Mr. Warren captivated the audience with his magic and used student participation. Students left the assembly with a lasting impression of how the media has been used to encourage smoking. It was exciting to hear students share their feelings of why they had considered smoking, but now have had a change of mind.Irene Griffis,
You not only held their attention, but delivered an important anti-drug/tobacco message. After the assemblies, students were able to tell me what you said about smoking and drugs as well as what magic tricks you performed.Sandra Huie,
You gave a really excellent program for our high school students, James: please feel free to use my name as a reference.Don Wilson,
Fantastic job, James. Four programs in a row on the same day and yet you held the attention of the students in every assembly.Richard Ramirez,
James Warren was the ideal school activity after a week of STAR testing! Kids and teachers alike were riveted by his magic: he had 350 students laughing hard. Additionally, Jim was able to weave in messages about the benefits of teamwork and not giving in to peer pressure as part of his magic act. I would definitely recommend him to other principals and schools.Dan Picardi,
Everyone is talking about how great your presentation was!Linda Cooper,
On behalf of Pacifica High School, I would like to thank you for your wonderful presentation on peer pressure. It is a challenge to explain the ramifications of peer pressure and you did just that in a way that captivated the students and brought forth their full attention. Your performance was the talk of the campus.Jodi Leader,
The best closing presenter we've had at the Texas Teen Tobacco Summit in six years! What you did was just perfect for illustrating the illusions of tobacco advertising.Sherri Scott,
It is my pleasure to recommend to you, Mr. James Warren. His message was integrated into a very entertaining magic show to which students responded enthusiastically. I would heartily recommend Mr. Warren for a motivational assembly speaker.Donna Carson,
Your magic was terrific and mind stumping! All 900 students were interested and amazed. The combination of the magic and the message was wonderful!Hannah Peckham,
Your tobacco prevention magic show is a great way to send a message to students. The feedback from the students and school staff at all four junior high schools has been positive. Thank you for sharing the message with Santa Clarita youth and being a part of the Santa Clarita Smokeout.Pam Matsuoka,
I am a tutor at Southwest Jr. High and was lucky enough to be on the campus the day you were there. Everyone just loved your tricks, and I couldn't stop laughing during the toilet paper routine. I really think your message got out to students. Thank you for this wonderful deed you are providing to America's youth.Angelica Rodriguez,
He is charismatic and readily captures the hearts of kids. His message regarding smoking had the student body absolutely spellbound. He is definitely an "Earl Reum" 10.Hal Rosewall,
I have had the pleasure of seeing you put on assemblies for Middle School Students on two occasions. Both times the programs were top notch and informative. I would love to book you for our elementary school.Cesar Torrico,
Thank you so much for a great keynote presentation. The students and other conference attendees thought it was phenomenal!June Sutherland,